noahgibbs | (no subject)

It has been recently brought to my attention that not enough of you have read Daphne Gottlieb's poetry. Yeah, yeah, poetry is whiny and new-agey and all the other crap you hear. Hers isn't. Here's a sexy grammar poem of hers, and her other stuff, while not much like this, is still incredible.

Her poems, a few of them, are here.

Watch Your Tense and Case

oh baby
i want to be your direct object.
you know, that is to say
i want to be on the other
side of all the verbs i know
you know how to use.

i've seen you conjugate:
i touch
you touched
you heard
she knows
who cares

i'm interested in
a few decent prepositions:
above, over, inside, atop,
below, around and
i'm sure there are more
right on the tip of
your tongue.

i am ready to spend
the present perfect
splitting your infinitive
there's an art to the way you
dangle your participle and

since we're being informal it's okay to
use a few contractions, like
wasn't (going to)
shouldn't (have)
and a conjunction:
but (did it anyway)

and i'm really really glad
you're not into dependent
clauses since all i'm really
interested in is your
bad, bad grammar
and your exclamation point.